21.   Namely, that the very concept of race is bogus and has no basis in biology, according to most scientists.

22.   Quebec is, they insist, usually invoking the history of New France in North America, a founding partner in the very concept of the nation.

23.   Reality shows continue to chug ahead, although the very concept seems even more ludicrous now than it did before.

24.   Robison is an insult to the very concept of human decency.

25.   Seventy percent of Americans opposed the very concept of invasion to crack the generals.

26.   Some think the very concept of long-distance calling may become obsolete.

27.   Such suspicions notwithstanding, the very concept of the mosque as architecture was alien to many of those Ms. Dodds interviewed.

28.   That would be especially tragic, Upton said, because Friant personifies the very concept of family farming.

29.   The headlong rush to slash government in Orange County thus poses a threat to the very concept of government as a shared enterprise with benefits for all.

30.   The very concept of looking forward to future issues may sound oxymoronic when applied to a periodical focused on a terminal illness.